Monthly Archives: May 2016

Exam 4: Cancer Recurrence Following Immune-Suppressive Therapies in Patients With Immune-Mediated Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Acute Right Upper Abdominal Pain With No Trauma History

Question: An 82-year-old woman arrived in our emergency department for acute right upper abdominal pain with no trauma history. She had a medical history of cardiac arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation) with pacemaker insertion and anticoagulant therapy (wa… Continue reading

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Acute Right Upper Abdominal Pain With No Trauma History

Question: An 82-year-old woman arrived in our emergency department for acute right upper abdominal pain with no trauma history. She had a medical history of cardiac arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation) with pacemaker insertion and anticoagulant therapy (wa… Continue reading

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Treatment of Hypohepatia After Transplantation of Liver From a Living Donor Liver by Transcatheter Embolization, Using a Simulated 3-Dimensional Printing Vascular Model

Question: A 68-year-old man with severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis underwent a left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. The volume of the donor’s liver was relatively low for the recipient; therefore, portacaval shunting was perfor… Continue reading

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Treatment of Hypohepatia After Transplantation of Liver From a Living Donor Liver by Transcatheter Embolization, Using a Simulated 3-Dimensional Printing Vascular Model

Question: A 68-year-old man with severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis underwent a left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation. The volume of the donor’s liver was relatively low for the recipient; therefore, portacaval shunting was perfor… Continue reading

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Exam 3: The Toronto Consensus for the Treatment of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Adults

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Multiple Giant Mushroom-like Tumors Inside the Stomach

Question: A 63-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and dizziness for 1 month. She had a history of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), M2, and received chemotherapy followed by allogeneic matched unrelated donor peripheral blood hematopoietic st… Continue reading

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Multiple Giant Mushroom-like Tumors Inside the Stomach

Question: A 63-year-old woman presented with abdominal fullness and dizziness for 1 month. She had a history of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), M2, and received chemotherapy followed by allogeneic matched unrelated donor peripheral blood hematopoietic st… Continue reading

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Multiple White Plaques in the Body of the Stomach in a Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis

Question: A 65-year-old man with a history of rectal cancer had received hemodialysis for 7 years in treatment for diabetic nephritis. Chest radiographs showed an aggregation of high-intensity granular shadows in the left upper quadrant (Figure A, circ… Continue reading

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Multiple White Plaques in the Body of the Stomach in a Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis

Question: A 65-year-old man with a history of rectal cancer had received hemodialysis for 7 years in treatment for diabetic nephritis. Chest radiographs showed an aggregation of high-intensity granular shadows in the left upper quadrant (Figure A, circ… Continue reading

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